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Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Dark Days

There is a
convoluted provenance to the saying “the fascists of the future will be the
anti-fascists” and it involves today’s so-called ‘Antifa’ convincing themselves
that it predates Winston Churchill, to whom it is often credited and that it
was in fact referring to patriotic movements, not to those who ‘oppose
fascism’. Thus they feel justified in behaving as a violent mob to take down anybody
who disagrees with them. Vandalism, Molotov cocktails, darts thrown at police,
cars torched, paviours torn up and used as missiles; all essential weapons in
the holy fight against the people who create all the jobs, pay all the taxes
and generally allow society to function.

Jeremy Corbyn
likes to talk about equality. He also likes to talk about kinder, gentler
politics; for the many, not the few. So it was somewhat disappointing to see
the mob mentality of his kinder, gentler comrades demanding the sack – and much
worse - for Tory MP Anne Marie Morris for using a phrase that still has currency
and was once very common indeed. Of course, it was downright stupid to have
said ‘nigger in the woodpile’ but if you start sanctioning people for ‘offensive
language’, where do you stop? Most of the rhetoric of the Momentum Mafia is
pretty offensive, not to say downright ignorant.

The thing we
should be getting alarmed about is how ready our political and media classes
are to string somebody up for a hasty choice of words; as if nobody ever
blurted out an anachronism before. When it comes to tolerance we really should
play the white man. Yes, that’s what I wrote; let’s be more white about it all
and let people get on and do their job as best they can. But, of course, we can’t
do that, can we? That genie is long out of the bottle and civilised behaviour
along with it; the slightest offence perceived, even by proxy, must receive the
same censure as an outright and deliberate attack on an individual.

Of course,
labelling all Tories as baby-eating, white supremacist, cancerous,
society-destroying malcontents is fine, so by that standard Anne Marie Morris
has got off lightly with only the ruination of her immediate career prospects,
but how the left get away with industrial strength hypocrisy like this is still
quite something to behold. And it was hilarious, as always, to see wee Owen
Jones being triggered; honestly I pity the poor sod who dares to order a black coffee
in his presence in the next few days.

Kiwi? That downright derogatory!

In the meantime,
I have stuff to be doing – I work like a black, you know. So I’m going to
polish my nigger-brown shoes, hop in a black cab and get to slaving away, balls
out, down on the old plantation befo’ Massa gets in one of his black moods and sends
one of his dogs out to give me a whipping. He’s not racist though, he just doesn’t like darkies!